{"id":5944,"date":"2012-02-08T16:10:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T22:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2012-02-08T16:10:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T22:10:23","slug":"the-anatomy-of-appeasement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/the-anatomy-of-appeasement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anatomy of Appeasement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/02\/08\/john-boehner-birth-control-rule-reversal_n_1262930.html?ref=politics\">Huffpo:<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> In a rare floor speech Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) demanded that the Obama administration reverse its new rule requiring most employers&#8217; insurance plans to cover birth control with no co-pay for employees. Boehner pledged to take legislative action if the administration refuses to reverse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/08\/health\/policy\/obama-addresses-ire-on-health-insurance-contraception-rule.html?pagewanted=all&#038;smid=fb-share\">New York Times:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the Republican presidential candidates and conservative leaders sought to frame the rule as showing President Obama\u2019s insensitivity to religious beliefs, Mr. Obama\u2019s aides promised to explore ways to make it more palatable to religious-affiliated institutions, perhaps by allowing some employers to make side insurance plans available that are not directly paid for by the institutions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huffpo: In a rare floor speech Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) demanded that the Obama administration reverse its new rule requiring most employers&#8217; insurance plans to cover birth control with no co-pay for employees. Boehner pledged to take legislative action if the administration refuses to reverse. New York Times: As the Republican presidential candidates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/the-anatomy-of-appeasement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Anatomy of Appeasement<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1xS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}